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Full Of Hell watch a music video for first single ‘Doors To Mental Agony’ now

Full Of Hell watch a music video for first single ‘Doors To Mental Agony’ now
Salad Days

Announce new album ‘Coagulated Bliss’ their colossal 6th studio album will be out April 26 on Closed Casket Activities. On tour with Dying Fetus in North America.

Full Of Hell burst forth with incredible force from the small, dagger-shaped city of Ocean City, Maryland, 15 years ago. Over five full-lengths, five collaborative full-lengths, and countless splits, EPs, singles, and noise compilations, they’ve evolved at extraordinary speed, their music becoming more complicated and technical without ever slowing down or losing its soul. Everything on a Full of Hell album feels like a blur: smears of guitar, harsh noise shaken like gravel in a bag, singer Dylan Walker’s snarl and bite carrying him into outer space or into the core of the earth. They’re coiled, interlocking, impossible to penetrate, and they move with alarming speed. They have now reached terminal velocity. Having created their own context, they’re now able to walk around within it, to survey its terrain, to visit far corners and see who’s nearby. Their forthcoming album, ‘Coagulated Bliss’, sounds like Full Of Hell, but it’s nothing like any Full Of Hell record that’s come before it. These songs are trimmer, less freighted with anxiety, more interested in opening up than speeding away. Its bile is sometimes funneled into traditional song structures. It never shies away from the extreme harsh noise, unrelenting spirit, and pitch-black sadness of previous band records; if anything, the leanness of these songs makes them feel even heavier. Nevertheless, there are tracks here you might find yourself whistling hours after listening. It’s an extraordinary and unexpected evolution in sound for a band who made their name on rapid metamorphosis, and it’s the logical endpoint of everything group has covered so far. “I wanted to try to take every aspect of what we’ve done from previous releases and integrate it into this one” guitarist Spencer Hazard says. These songs feel huge, totemic, groundshaking. Take the album’s first single, ‘Doors To Mental Agony’ alongside a music video directed by Erich Richter which sets up a circle pit, then blasts it apart with a grindcore chorus, and slides away on a slanted riff. Walker comments, “In this life there are many doors. Rural America exists in a vacuum with its own mundane horrors and dead ends. Every person you know will stumble through one of these doors at some point, falling into mistakes that can’t be undone. Look on reality and weep.” Artwork by Brian Montuori.

‘Coagulated Bliss’, tracklisting:

Half Life Of Changelings
Doors To Mental Agony
Transmuting Chemical Burns
Fractures Bonds To Mecca
Coagulated Bliss
Bleeding Horizon
Vomiting Glass
Schizoid Rupture
Vacuous Dose
Gasping Dust
Gelding Of Men
Malformed Ligature

‘Coagulated Bliss’ was recorded at Developing Nations in Baltimore by Kevin Bernstein, mixed by Taylor Young at The Pit Recording Studio in Van Nuys California and mastered by Nick Townsend of Infrasonic Sound in Los Angeles California. Full Of Hell is Spencer Hazard (guitar/electronics), David Bland (drums/vocals), Samuel DiGristine (bass/sax/vocals) and Dylan Walker (vocals/electronics/lyrics), with new guitarist Gabriel Solomon joining following the album’s completion.

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Full Of Hell, on tour:

April 25 Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore ^
April 26 Sayerville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom ^
April 27 Syracuse, NY @ The Song & Dance ^
April 28 Albany, NY @ Empire Live ^
April 30 Quebec City, QV @ Theatre Capitole ^
May 1 Montreal, QC @ Beanfield Theatre ^
May 2 Ottawa, ON @ The Brass Monkey ^
May 3 London, ON @ London Music Hall ^
May 4 Toronto, ON @ Phoenix Concert Theatre ^
May 5 Buffalo, NY @ Electric City ^
May 7 Pontiac, MI @ The Crofoot Ballroom ^
May 8 Columbus, OH @ The King of Clubs ^
May 9 Joliet, IL @ The Forge ^
May 10 Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave ^
May 12 Winnipeg, MB @ Park Theatre ^
May 13 Saskatoon, SK @ Louis ^
May 14 Edmonton, AB @ The Starlite Room ^
May 15 Calgary, AB @ The Palace Theatre ^
May 17 Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre ^
May 18 Seattle, WA @ El Corazon ^
May 19 Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater ^

July 13 + 14 Los Angeles, CA @ Exposition Park (Sound & Fury)

^ w/ Dying Fetus

Photo by: Zachary Jones

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